Vigil honors slain UIW student

Staff Report :
December 7, 2013
: Updated: December 9, 2013 12:02pm

Valerie Redus (middle), mother of Robert Cameron Redus is hugged by Emily Vaughan, a friend of the family as people gather at the University of the Incarnate Word grotto as part of the vigil for Cameron. Cameron Redus was a student at UIW who was killed by a university police officer.

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A vigil is held Dec. 7, 2013 inside the Academic Convocation Center for Robert Cameron Redus who was a University of the Incarnate Word student shot and killed by an university police officer. Many in attendance either wore green clothing or a green ribbon as it was his favorite color.

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Derrick Bryant (middle), a close friend of Cameron Redus, hugs other friends and family members of Cameron's as they come to a vigil Dec. 7, 2013 for Redus who was a University of the Incarnate Word student shot and killed by an university police officer. Many in attendance either wore green clothing or a green ribbon as it was his favorite color.

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A vigil is held Dec. 7, 2013 for Robert Cameron Redus who was a University of the Incarnate Word student shot and killed by an university police officer. The vigil began at the UIW Academic Convocation Center and then finished at the grotto. Many in attendance either wore green clothing or a green ribbon as it was his favorite color.

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Miriam Thomas (left) tries to light Megan Gaitan's candle Dec. 7, 2013 as they prepare to walk from the University of Incarnate Word Academic Convocation Center to the grotto as a vigil is held for Robert Cameron Redus who was a UIW student shot and killed by an university police officer. Many in attendance either wore green clothing or a green ribbon as it was his favorite color.

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Robert Cameron Redus is seen in a 2011 photo posted on his Facebook page. Redus was shot and killed Friday Dec. 6, 2013 by a University of Incarnate Word police officer. The UIW officer was placed on administrative leave while authorities investigate the shooting.

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Robert Cameron Redus, left, is seen in a 2011 photo posted on his Facebook page. Redus was shot and killed Friday Dec. 6, 2013 by a University of Incarnate Word police officer. The UIW officer was placed on administrative leave while authorities investigate the shooting.

“He was the most intelligient, artistic, creative and genius mind I have ever come across,” Bryant said, crying.

Kyle Leihsing, a San Antonio native, met Redus through Bryant.

The two had been friends about Three years.

“He was one of the most level-headed people I've ever met. What I have heard is completely counterintuitive to what I have known him to be,” he said, reffering to accounts of Redus initiating an altercation with the officer who shot him.

UIW police Cpl. Christopher J. Carter was put on paid leave after the shooting that occurred off campus, during a traffic stop near the intersection of Broadway and Austin Highway.